All About Industrial Floor Coatings
The following quote was from a blog post that Angela started a while back. It is floor time. As a winery, we need a sealed concrete floor for our production space. Sounds easy enough… but when you have a list of needs such as quality, budget, durability, and efficiency it makes for some interesting compromises. Interesting reading? Not sure, but here goes. Well, the floor is supremely important to me. Maybe because I’m short and I rarely look up, or maybe it just makes everything that much cleaner feeling, but my one demand was that we didn’t end up with a car showroom...
Read MoreMarketing Wine in China
This blog post follows a whirlwind set-up of wine in China posted here. As a student in the MBA program at the University of Washington, I am so lucky to have the chance to learn from amazing community business representatives on a variety of topics. This quarter we are discussing China, so naturally I am writing about China and wine. Most recently we heard from Amazon executive Diego Piacentini. In the first forum Mr. Piacentini alluded to adding a cancellation/return policy to Joyo, how everyone else thought returns were just not a part of Chinese culture. But then, when it became an...
Read MoreBarrel Raising
Our new wine space came with an interesting sign post out front. It has two spaces for possible signage. From the ground, 20 feet below, it looked like a wine barrel might fit perfectly in the upper spot. As it happened, Winegirl Angela was working on painting some old barrels. We knew that getting the 100 pound barrel up in the air might be a little tricky as would keeping it up there. The crew gathered together chain, steel pipe, nuts and bolts and brackets. We checked the sketches, then crumpled them up. We checked the wind, then ignored the results and dragged the barrel up and onto the...
Read MoreLabel of the Month: LotM – April
You know, what better way to go down in history than with your own wine label. As I was researching my Wine in China? post, I came across a Karl Marx label on a Chinese sparkling wine. So, naturally I decided it would have to be the next label of the month. Further researched confirmed another label on a German red wine: This search also turned up an intriguing set of wine labels with equally controversial images (depending on which side you take) upon them. How about the Hitler label or the Carter label or the Che label? So, I’m no history buff. It was my...
Read MoreFirst Things Third
Drain The result of all that mud digging posted in First Things First was a new drain. I never thought I’d be so proud of a hole in the ground. We’ll even have a space for a sanitizing sink in the winery to clean all of our winemaking tools. _________________________________________________________________ Carpet While the boys were having their way with the pipes, I was working diligently on our décor. This meant tearing up the hideous blue indoor-outdoor carpet. You’d think this would be easy… you’d just need a putty knife. (Putty...
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